Archive for July, 2008
secret library books
So I’m really entranced by this idea I saw on this game design blog - books that you know in your bones are really about your thing, even though on the surface they claim to be about another thing –
I am building a list of the “secret” books on game design. These are books that [...]
The September Project
The amazing David Silver asked me to help spread the word about The September Project as September draws closer and closer. And I couldn’t think of a better place to talk about it than here - because this project connects so closely to the things we’ve been talking and writing about — about how [...]
backyard poultry raising
The first thing I did when I decided to raise chickens was put a hold on every book in the library with chicken or poultry in the subject heading. By far, the most informative and entertaining one I read is John Festus Adams’ Backyard poultry raising: the chicken-growing, egg-laying, feather-plucking, incubating, caponizing, finger-licking handbook, published [...]
liberation + stupidity = awesome
As is my wont, I just happened to read two things that I think are talking about the same thing and it’s a thing that I think is kind of important, so I’m going to talk about that thing a little bit more. I’m re-reading A Pedagogy for Liberation right now (highly recommended, BTW) and [...]
Everything is Miscellaneous
At the 2008 Libraries in the Digital Age conference I attended a month ago, Jeffrey Pomerantz presented results of a study of library and information science curriculum that showed that David Weinberger’s 2007 book Everything is Miscellaneous was one of the most popular books assigned in courses on digital libraries metadata.
“That’s terrible”, I told Pomerantz, [...]
more about music
at the risk of becoming ⌘-f’s arts and entertainment writer, i’m going to talk a bit more about music today. first, a story:
i have a friend who is a well-known musician, Kristin Hersh. i was riding in her minivan with her, her husband Billy, and two of her sons then aged about 4 [...]
OMG - the librarian can’t find the best source
So this has been bothering me for a while and I haven’t been sure how to talk about it. It’s the phrase “the best source.” As in, “Google’s great for some things but librarians can really teach you how to find the best source on your topic.”
So I started really thinking about this [...]
Never thought I’d find copyright paradise in Disneyland
as usual, i have copyright and culture on the brain. between the UMUC CIP symposium at the end of May and ALA in Anaheim last week, i’ve got a lot of thoughts rattling around in here. this ALA conference seemed unusually full of copyright-related material. In addition to the usual ACRL and OITP meetings concerning [...]
The Oregonian, NewsBank and Us
The Oregon State Library subsidizes the cost of databases through NewsBank and EBSCO so that all Oregon libraries can provide their patrons access to online resources. It’s an incredible program.
The word is out that NewsBank recently tripled the price for OSL’s license to the Portland Oregonian, Oregon’s newspaper of record. OSL’s Statewide Database Licensing [...]
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